Regius Professor Definition

Regius Professor Sentence Examples

• Vansittart's brother, Robert Vansittart (1728-1789), who was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Oxford, was regius professor of civil law at Oxford from 1757 until his death on the 31st of January 1789.

• In January 1543/4 he was appointed first regius professor of civil law.

• In 1771 he was appointed regius professor of divinity, but did not entirely renounce the study of chemistry.

• In 1866 he was appointed regius professor of modern history at Oxford, and held the chair until 1884.

• From 1708 he was regius professor of divinity and canon of Christ Church, Oxford; and from 1715 he was bishop of Oxford.